[linux-audio-user] Re: Software recommendation

Robert Jonsson rj at spamatica.se
Thu Nov 30 15:38:02 EST 2006


Hello Hector,

On Thursday 30 November 2006 04:54, Hector Centeno wrote:
> I was wondering why are there many grayed out options in the Functions
> menu inside the piano roll editor? I would like to be able to use some
> of them, are they not yet implemented? (for example, transpose,
> crescendo, thin out, etc).

I didn't check but I would presume they are not implemented. It is a fact that 
there are a number of midi editing capabilities missing still. 1.0 will 
feature a new midi plugin api that hopefully will make it easier to add stuff 
like this.

Regards,
Robert

>
>
> Hector
>
> On 11/28/06, Robert Jonsson <rj at spamatica.se> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > <...>
> >
> > > I'd also say SEQ24 is your best run for your time. GTK, very lean, very
> > > simplistic. Does what you want. One drawback: Sequence lengths cannot
> > > be arbitrary, 1,2,4,8,16,32 or 64 bars. If this is a showstopper I
> > > would recommend writing to the author (or starting a campaign for
> > > people to write to the author) and ask for that.
> > >
> > > The next closest bet would be Rosegarden, but that's a full-fledged KDE
> > > App, which is why I stay away from it.
> > >
> > > Another option is Jazz++, which is fairly good but doesn't get a lot of
> > > press for some reason. It's cross-platform but fairly lightweight on
> > > linux.
> > >
> > > Still, I'd love to see Seq24 implement arbitrary sequence lengths
> > > myself... and it's such an exceptional program in how useful it is and
> > > how simple it is at the same time.
> >
> > It's that time of year again, I feel like trying to push the word about
> > MusE some...
> >
> > Any particular reason why you'd find MusE to be a bad solution for this?
> >
> > Being a MusE developer and long time user, I'm merely asking as to
> > understand what other users lack in MusE that we might fix to make it
> > better (apart from mediocre publicity...).
> >
> > This questions is definately not just directed at Carlo.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Robert
> >
> > > Carlo
> >
> > --
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